[Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 40th anniversary of the election of John Paul II.) “We, who are […]
Fiorella De Maria’s second Father Gabriel mystery, The Vanishing Woman, goes beyond the simplicity of much crime-fiction to offer a portrait of the long-term costs of war. […]
Some Lenten lessons in belief from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, and Flannery O’Connor. […]
True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]
A review of To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age, by Bishop Robert Barron, with John L. Allen, Jr. […]
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
Flannery O’Connor, says Joshua Hren, “raised some crucial problems: in literary works written in a world that lives as though God is dead, do we need […]
The question sometimes comes up: “Where should I start with Flannery O’Connor?” Perhaps the person posing the question has never read O’Connor at all. Or he might have encountered one of her widely anthologized stories […]
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